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An investigation into the possible arousal of psychological reactance as a consequence of interest inventory feedback

Creator:

Beller, Stephen Mark

Abstract:

The purpose of this research was to determine whether feedback from vocational interest inventories leads to the arousal of psychological reactance. The data for the study was collected from 80 male and female subjects who were first year students at Oregon State University enrolled in Psychology 111, Personal Development. The...

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Dissertation
Sex role stereotypes and children's memory for story content

Creator:

Gentry, Sally A.

Abstract:

The present experiment examined children's memory for stereotypic and non-stereotypic sex role content in their reading material. Twenty-four male and twenty-four female fifth grade subjects read two short stories, each depicting a male and female character who exhibited an equal number of masculine and feminine traits and behaviors. Results of...

Resource Type:

Dissertation